A year passed like water and we had the CQ WW contest here again. The rules are still the same so only briefly to refresh the memory. The stations sends callsign, the report and the CQ zone (the serial number…
CQ WPX Contest 2022
This year’s CQ WPX was on the the last weekend of March like every year. I participate it but since I had little time so not to the full time. I chose the category Single Operator – Low power, Non…
CQWW Contest 2021
This year I only participated marginally in CQWW Contest. I was active about 10 hours out of a total of 48 hours and also the number of QSO´s and scores is much lower than in the last years. Good propagations…
Measuring RF power and what to watch out for
Last article What is SWR and … I mentioned that some watt-meters are basically voltmeters calibrated in watts and that we’ll talk about it a little more sometime next time. That next time came now, so I’m going to try…
What is SWR and is it really that important?
Today we talk something about SWR, what it really is, why it is important to know about it and measure it regularly, how it calulate, what value is already critical and what happens if it is not equal to 1:1.…